The victim? Her mother, Dee Dee, who suffered from Munchausen by proxy syndrome and had allegedly been abusing her daughter by making her sick for years to gain sympathy and attention, and who was eventually killed by Gypsy’s boyfriend, whom she met online. (If you’d like to to read more about the case, check out the BuzzFeed piece on it from 2016.)

The case is now being turned into a Hulu anthology series, with Joey playing the role of Gypsy and Patricia Arquette as Dee Dee. EW had the first look at both Joey and Patricia as their characters — in one pic, we see Joey-as-Gypsy sitting in the sink as Dee Dee shaves her head.

The role is a major one for Joey, and requires a serious transformation into the persona of a young woman trapped in a situation she can’t get out of — one she has to resort to murder to escape. “Getting into the emotion and getting into the character of Gypsy was something I was so excited to tackle, but I was also admittedly super-nervous for,” Joey said about the role. “This is the first time I’ve ever gotten the privilege to really, really transform myself for a role.”

Brownie Harris

Brownie Harris

According to EW, she’ll also be wearing fake teeth in addition to shaving her head. “Transforming into Gypsy was one of the most challenging but most rewarding things I’ve ever done,” she says. We can’t wait to see her tackle such highly-anticipated, high-profile material; she’s had some experience with horror before in The Conjuring and Slender Man, so a true crime role definitely makes sense.